MFA Creative Practice – 2 year International low-residency program in Berlin and New York City
MFA Creative Practice
Application Deadline: March 1, 2011
Transart Institute
Summer residency: July 23-August 12, Berlin, Germany
Winter residency: January 5–8, 2012, New York CIty
http://www.transartinstitute.org
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A certificate program is offered for artists who are not seeking a degree. Participants join MFA students in workshops, lectures and critiques and leave the residency with input on project plans for the year ahead. Artists attend the certificate program to get a creative surge, revitalize their practice, take their work in a new direction, get a fresh perspective on their work and to become part of an international community of artists, theorists and curators.
SUMMER RESIDENCIES
Summer Residencies are both milestones and resources, taking place at the beginning middle and end of the two year program. Residencies open with a thesis exhibition, performances and a public vernissage. Weeks one and three consist of studio workshops, week two focuses on cultural studies seminars, Fridays center on student presentations. In addition, guest lectures, artist and curator talks and critiques as well as individual meetings with faculty take place each week in order for students to plan, inform and finalize the coming year’s project. http://www.transartinstitute.org/Summer_program.html
WINTER RESIDENCIES
The focus is on presentations, critiques, feedback and the sharing of resources mid-way through studio and research projects. Students have the opportunity to experiment with presentation forms order to explore exhibition, performance and documentation possibilities in anticipation of the summer thesis exhibition. Guest artist talks, screenings and practical topical workshops complete the residency. This winter’s schedule can be found in the calendar. http://www.transartinstitute.org/Winter_program.html
FACULTY
Transart faculty comes from a wide range of academic and artistic backgrounds as well as geographic locations. Current theoretical areas of expertise include software art, curatorial work, cyberfeminism, African diaspora, interface technologies, digital arts, continental philosophy, media, social studies in colonialism, capitalism and tourism, word and image relationships, and contemporary asian art history. Studio faculty include international artists working with sound, performance, dance and choreography, photography, drawing, sculpture, film and video, intervention and installation art. Details online: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Members.html
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
The majority of Transart students are emerging and mid-career artists and educators at tertiary institutions. Transart Institute’s residencies are a meeting place for cultural exchange. Transart students and alumni will converge for the summer residency from areas as diverse as Italy, Egypt, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia, Canada, Costa Rica, the UK and the US.
For many students the time at Transart is a transformational experience. New York based artist Virgil Wong found “The community I’ve become a part of through Transart is already much more immersive than what I’ve developed in ten years of living and working as an artist in New York City”. Photographer and performer Angelika Rinnhofer found that “to work independently can pose a challenge but it also offers freedom and flexibility. Since a large number of students are accomplished artists and earn a living, Transart’s concept is ideal to work toward a degree and to expand one’s artistic career in addition to having a job.” For composer and artist David Dunn “perhaps the most important aspect of the program, to me personally, has been the realization of just how constrained my professional life can be. I have no lack of colleagues or opportunities to present my work but my network of association tends to reinforce a particular set of intellectual and aesthetic assumptions that become ‘the’ set of assumptions. Transart succeeds at prying apart some of those entrenched viewpoints to provide space for new ideas and concerns. The truly international makeup of the students and faculty reinforces this.”
ADMISSION
Early application deadline for guaranteed consideration is March 1st, 2011 with rolling admissions (pending availability of places and/or scholarships) until June 1, 2011. Applications can be submitted online: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Admissions.html
TUITION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
A number of partial scholarships (typically 10-25%) are given each year and will be announced separately as they become available.
For further information please contact Selina Heaton: [email protected]
Cella, MFA,
Klaus Knoll, PhD
Directors, Transart Institute
http://www.transartinstitute.org
Phone: (347) 410 9905, Fax: (508) 682 2853